Author Topic: Retirement (Read 7664 times)

Busby · « **on:** May 28, 2009, 09:34:46 AM »

This is not my usual smart axx post, I am setting here at the office on my next to last day.
71 and counting thank goodness.
After much medication and doctors I have arrived at something my body will tolerate.

I found out last weekend that I can still fly a pattern, now to clean the shop out and get back to building.
I must have new equipment, Unlike Randy I cant fly 7 or 8 year old planes .

Busby

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2009, 09:41:52 AM »

I am very happy for you. I too am 71 and have been retired several years.

WARNING: It may take you a while to get used to it. It took me almost two hours.

Busby · « **Reply #2 on:** May 28, 2009, 09:47:44 AM »

I dont think it will take me quite that long.I am ready.
Busby

Roger Vizioli · « **Reply #3 on:** May 28, 2009, 10:06:58 AM »

You will be surprised at how busy you will become.
Roger V.

don Burke · « **Reply #4 on:** May 28, 2009, 10:10:34 AM »

Your aren't going to fell bad about it.
Took me about 2 micro-seconds to get used to not getting up at 5:15 in the AM. Been that way for 14 years. But I run out of time to do things, don't know how I ever had time to work!

FLOYD CARTER · « **Reply #5 on:** May 28, 2009, 10:25:48 AM »

The very best thing about retirement is that I never have to answer a ringing telephone (and I don't). I feel that humans were infinitely happier in the 19th century before the telephone was invented.

Floyd in OR (11 years telephone-free)

RandySmith · « **Reply #6 on:** May 28, 2009, 11:03:57 AM »

Quote from: Busby on May 28, 2009, 09:34:46 AM

This is not my usual smart axx post, I am setting here at the office on my next to last day.
71 and counting thank goodness.
After much medication and doctors I have arrived at something my body will tolerate.

I found out last weekend that I can still fly a pattern, now to clean the shop out and get back to building.
I must have new equipment, Unlike Randy I cant fly 7 or 8 year old planes .

Busby

Gee Buz my 20 year old Dreadnought Vectra still works pretty well, maybe you need to take a ride on it one day soon.....

R

Robertc · « **Reply #7 on:** May 28, 2009, 11:24:02 AM »

Glad to hear all is well and the retirement is in. Now that I've been retired for a while, I can say it's a no stress job. I can't seem to build any faster though....

Robert Compton

Jerry Leuty · « **Reply #8 on:** May 28, 2009, 11:42:30 AM »

Plan for your future. Decide at some point what equipment you need and build it and fly it. Build a couple of them. I just retired for the second time, (long story) and I just got back from Richard Oliver's place where we flew in the Ringmaster Round Up with Dee Rice. It was great. I am going to build another Ringmaster and I am just going to take 2 for next year's fun competition. I am building two Orientals for next year's VSC. It is time to take some of the varied stunt ships out and either crash them or get proficient at the stunt pattern. My wife is retiring tomorrow and it is off in travels until fall. So time is short and must catch up on the home chores.

Jerry R. leuty

Busby · « **Reply #9 on:** May 28, 2009, 11:53:38 AM »

Reply to R
No one has planes as old as yours that are still in good shape,
I know that mine look like they have been through the wars, all three or four of them.
Wars that is not the planes.
Busby

Dalton Hammett · « **Reply #10 on:** May 28, 2009, 12:20:34 PM »

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Best of luck in your retirement !!!! I retired 8 years ago (went from 7 days a week to 6) . I plan on retireing a second time soon (go to 4 or 5) as I still don't have enough time to do the things I want. Enjoy!!!!!!

Dalton H.

Jim Kraft · « **Reply #11 on:** May 28, 2009, 02:45:23 PM »

I retired 4 years ago. Like Keith, it only took about 2 minutes on monday morning to get used to it. The funny thing is I still get up at about the same time as I have stuff I want to do instead of stuff I have to do. Gives a whole new meaning to getting up. I think for most guys that have hobbies and such, retirement is great. I have had a few friends that could not handle it, and had to go back to work. When you stop and think about it, it is the first time since we were about 4 years old that we do not have to be someplace everyday, except for summer vacation when in school. It also helps if you wife is your best friend. I am very fortunate in that regard, and we spend a lot of wonderful time together.

Have a wonderful retirement.

Jim Oliver · « **Reply #12 on:** May 28, 2009, 02:50:03 PM »

Congrats, Buz........

Best job you'll ever have!!

Jim

Will Hinton · « **Reply #13 on:** May 28, 2009, 05:21:16 PM »

WHOOPEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Man-o-man Marshall, that is wonderful news. Like others, I find I no longer had the time to work! as for adapting, it took me until I was close to the parking lot entrance before I accomplished that!
It did take a year or so before I quit waking up at 5:30AM, though. That was a real curse and as early as you always get up, you've got your work cut out for you! But if anyone can, you can.
God bless you, my friend, go burn fuel and be blessed a bunch.
Will

Leo Mehl · « **Reply #14 on:** May 28, 2009, 05:27:51 PM »

I waited until I was 71 before I retired and at 77 can still fly a pretty decent pattern is I don't forget to do some things. Congratulations and remember there is still a lot of life left in the old bones and it's time to have fun YHOOOOOO

Paul Taylor · « **Reply #15 on:** May 28, 2009, 06:54:27 PM »

Retirement what is that?

Sure sounds like fun and I hope it is still around when I get close to your age.

Gene Martine · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2009, 07:47:40 PM »

It's about time, now enjoy life & play as much as you want.
Gene

Clayton Berry · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2009, 08:34:09 PM »

I have to get up and go to work tomorrow.

I'll think about yoose guys that don't.

Not as much as I'll have to think about a partcular validation routine I have to write, but I'll give you a thought. Sometime between my drive in, and sometime before my drive home. Uh, huh. I will. Promise. Then again, I have this large breasted 38 year old that'll be testing my stuff and making snide remarks and generally making me forget about why I'm tired of doing what I do. It'll be okay.

I guess retire isn't what you do when you buy a new set of $12 apiece retreads for your Dodge Dart. Don't slow down - I'll catch up.

Guy B Jr · « **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2009, 11:55:34 PM »

Good luck on the retirement.
I went into semi-retirement about 3 years ago. Semi- means, as an industrial appraiser, that if a good job with a good fee comes along, I will take it. This is a job that I can do as long as I can walk and inspect the property and the equipment. I'll be 71 this summer and haven't regretted it at all. Still don't have time to do all I want to do and I only took one job last year. Maybe if I didn't spend as much time on theses forums, I could get more building and practicing done.

Have fun for the rest of your life.

Busby · « **Reply #19 on:** May 29, 2009, 08:28:15 AM »

Reply to Clayton:
Take it from me ,LEAVE THOSES ALONE,
They are nothing except trouble.

Eric Viglione · « **Reply #20 on:** May 29, 2009, 09:18:48 AM »

Hey Busby - Your name has come up on more than one occasion (no, not like that...) where you've been missed lately at some contests. Glad to hear you'll be back on the scene again!

Congrats on the retirement!

Let's see if you can beat my Dad's record. He worked at his job for almost 30years (a few years before WWII, they held his position and he finished out the 30 years total after the war), but collected retirement for over 32 years because he lived to be 97! (he out-lived everyone else in his retirement pool, and they kept extending his benefits).

I don't stand a chance, been self employed for over 23 years... oh my aching IRA... retire? What's that?!

Seeya!
EricV

Busby · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2009, 09:37:19 AM »

Reply to Eric;:
I understand exactly what your speaking of.
It really hurts to scrimp and save and watch it go down the tube over the last several years.
But I have managed to put in a stock pile of engines , tanks wood , kits etc.
I should not have to buy a serious piece of equipment form now until I go away., I have all the PAs, aerotigers
that I will ever be able to use. At last count 6 Aerotigers and about 15 PAs of various sizes and configurations, but I dint have a 75.Those are my savings accounts that wont devalue.

Charlie Pate · « **Reply #22 on:** May 29, 2009, 10:00:44 AM »

No! No !True retirement is when they pat you in the face with a shovel!
Actually you,re just changing jobs with a different pay scale and hours.
Not to worry; Help is on the way!
I am going to come over and teach you how to build a straight, light plane! and get 4 ft. bottoms
I am trying to get G. W. to help with engineering and engine set ups like they should be .
Now maybe Mack can....

Busby · « **Reply #23 on:** May 29, 2009, 10:14:18 AM »

Reply to Charley
Light? 4 foot bottoms?
Your right really need to work on Mac.

Marvin Denny · « **Reply #24 on:** May 29, 2009, 10:47:08 AM »

well, lets see now------- I worked 36 years----- Started having blood pressure problems, chest pain, headaches--- so I finally retired and all those ailiments disappeared. Been retired now for 21+ years and still haven't caught up on all the projects I put off to do when I retired. got so many kits and engines that I will have to live to be 150 to get them all used up.

Retirement is BEAUTIFUL and getting old is the pits. So I guess I will have to stay young (at heart) and keep on keeping on.

Bigiron

Jim Thomerson · « **Reply #25 on:** May 29, 2009, 11:02:06 AM »

Read a science fiction story some years ago. The guy is 45 and having his retirement party. Then they take him in and chain him to the machine where he will spend the rest of his life working. The idea of having retirement when you are young and can enjoy it. Being 74 and retired, I don't much care for that idea.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #26 on:** May 30, 2009, 07:15:11 PM »

Busby, glad to hear you are joining the ranks of old F***s. I was kind of forced into retirement before I was 62. Had to wait until I was 62 to apply for social security. Had to rely on my bonus til then. If they hadn't made the offer I would probably still be sitting at a consule watching the central offices. It has been scary at times, but, I wouldn't change a thing other than the part of every thing I had in stock and savings went caput.

But, I can make it. I work at crossing duty to get play money for the planes. I to have enough planes and engines to go far beyond my lifetime. That is why some are being put on the bay every so often.

Now I have all that off my chest. You have a great and long retirement. DOC Holliday

Matt Colan · « **Reply #27 on:** May 30, 2009, 07:34:37 PM »

Now you can start saying everyday is Sunday, as an excuse for not knowing which day of the week it is. My grandfather says that every now and then. Me, I don't even have a job because I am too young.

Congrats on the retirement

Now you'll have plenty of time to fly

Bill Little · « **Reply #28 on:** June 02, 2009, 02:16:07 AM »

Hi Buzz,

Well since you have joined me in the retirement department, I guess I can give you that payback I owe you and not feel too bad about it!

I haven't adjusted to this at all......... my friends say I have *separation anxiety*! All those years of coaching when I wouldn't get to sleep but a couple hours a night and all really got to me more than I thought. The point is, don't follow my lead (as if you ever would have!

)

So, enjoy it, Buddy, you have earned it!

*Dad*

P.S. I still need those Werwage props you promised!

Roger Vizioli · « **Reply #29 on:** June 02, 2009, 07:09:40 AM »

Hi Bill,

Check your e-mail.
Roger V.

GGeezer · « **Reply #30 on:** June 02, 2009, 11:11:51 PM »

Retirement really sucks!......... for two reasons:
1. You no longer get any time off..........no annual leave, statutory holidays, earned days off, weekends to look forward to and you never know what day of the week it is.
2. Where at your real job, time would occasionally just drag by, now it flies by so fast that before you know it your a year older and you still haven't finished that Nobler, Twister or whatever, the one you feel you just started maybe a week or so ago (more like two years ago).

Otherwise its GREAT! What I like best is that your time is your own to do with what YOU want........... YES DEAR, I'M GOING OUT TO CLEAN THE GARAGE!!!!

Orv.

Charlie Pate · « **Reply #31 on:** June 03, 2009, 11:04:14 AM »

That last window you did is streaked! Gettttttttttttttttt to it!

Louis Rankin · « **Reply #32 on:** June 04, 2009, 07:20:35 PM »

Marshall,

Make sure you stay single. If you ever get married again you will have to go back to work to pay off her credit card bills.

I have been single for nearly 21 years and retired for nearly 5 years. You could not give me a million dollars to get married or work again!!!!!!!!

Clayton Berry · « **Reply #33 on:** June 04, 2009, 09:37:50 PM »

Quote from: Busby on May 29, 2009, 08:28:15 AM

Reply to Clayton:
Take it from me ,LEAVE THOSES ALONE,
They are nothing except trouble.

Leave 'em alone? Shirley, you jest.

I read somewhere that they are the most wonderfullest of things...

Okay. Truth is I wrote it. But, then I read it.

I was waliking down a dark alley. Suddenly, she poked me in the back with two 38's. She also had a gun.

Bruce Reynolds · « **Reply #34 on:** June 05, 2009, 05:11:21 AM »

Quote from: Busby on May 29, 2009, 08:28:15 AM

Reply to Clayton:
Take it from me ,LEAVE THOSES ALONE,
They are nothing except trouble.

Quote from: Clayton Berry on June 04, 2009, 09:37:50 PM

Leave 'em alone? Shirley, you jest.

I read somewhere that they are the most wonderfullest of things...

Okay. Truth is I wrote it. But, then I read it.

I was waliking down a dark alley. Suddenly, she poked me in the back with two 38's. She also had a gun.

I haven't the faintest idea of what you all are talking about... I've been married for 16 years [/rimshot]

...and don't call me Shirley.

<Congrats Mr. Busby!!>

Robert Schroeder · « **Reply #35 on:** June 10, 2009, 12:54:42 PM »

Well,

Having been "retired" for a couple of months now, I threatened my wife with returning to work so I could get a break. I was told that it wasn't going to happen

. Guess I'll just keep sneaking out into the garage whenever I can to do a little building. I've been off for years before and I still don't know how I ever found the time to work. Retirement is still fun even if I can't live in the garage and at the flyin' field.

Light? Straight? 4 foot bottoms? Ya want to visit northwest Ohio for a while?

Bob

Dan Labine · « **Reply #36 on:** June 10, 2009, 04:06:29 PM »

I've been retired for 7 months.. I love it..

"I get up in the morning with nothing to do and when I go to bed only half of it is done.."

Dan

Author Topic: Retirement (Read 7664 times)

Eric Viglione